Serviio

Have just downloaded and fired up Serviio on my Mac Mini (Snow Leopard) after having Plex Media Server blow up on me mid stream.

Installation seemed simple enough, extract the tar.gz file and drag the 2 .app files into the applications folder. Cool.

Fired up and noticed the delay,as mentioned in the doco re the server icon bouncing about. Cool.

Fired up the Console and configured it to my Media Files location. Cool.

Then the fun began. I currently have 2 TV Series in my media (more being ripped from my DVD collection as we speak) Star Trek: Enterprise and X-Files.
The Star Trek was scanned and the Default "Go out and get the Metadata" worked a charm
BUT the X-Files seemed to return some c**p reality (but is it?) show X Factor and it is the US version Arrrrrgh!!!!

After researching some forum posts on X-Files and X Factor it seems to be a known issue and one suggestion of allowing the scanner to go back up more levels in the folder structure was handled by the devDude. Cool.
BUT Even renaming directory names and rescanning did not fix the issue

Original Dir structure TV Shows/The X-Files/Season x/The X-Files - S0xE0x.m4v
Renamed Dir Structure TV Shows/XFiles/Season x/The X-Files - S0xE0x.m4v

Note that the original structure worked perfectly under the Plex system, and as I understand the Plex system uses the same TheTVDB for the metadata ??

So what would be cool is some way of fine tuning the scanner to allow for mismatched scans. Maybe allow an override to force the scanner to use a specific string to ask for from the DB and match that to the directory structure to force it to use X-Files instead of X Factor.

As I did further testing I fired up my Samsung TV in the lounge and scanned for the DLNA source. Yep in the list. Cool.

Drill down through the menus and start playing a show. Cool.

Stop the playback and turn off the TV.
BUT I get back to my Mac and notice the CPUs are running at a high Util. Mmmmm. Open the Activity Monitor and Wow!!!!, ffmpeg is using 107% of CPU.
So what is going on here? Using the Serviio Console I stop the DLNA server but ffmpeg is still using all the CPU it can. So it seems to be still transcoding even though nothing is requesting it to.

Doing a Force Quit via Activity Monitor allows the CPU to cool down. Question, how do you stop the Serviio server with out using the Force Quit in Activity Monitor? There is no Dock icon or other GUI facing facility that I am aware of.

Otherwise, brilliant software, keep up the work.

Cheers
DN

After the first install, ffmpeg scans your library folders, CPU can rise during this process.
After that, ffmpeg will periodically scan for update, CPU can also rise during this process.
I suggest to disable the automatic refresh process, after the library build, then only enable it manually when you add files.

Right click on the Seviio icon in your task bar area (probably top right), when the console's running.

Zip

Cheers for that... I did find that icon after the original posting. I had first assumed the icon was for something else as it looked similar.

Tnx
DN

Some further research on the X-Files/X Factor issue...

I renamed a .m4v file to "X-Files S0xE0x.m4v" and the scanner found something called X. Thumbnail looked like a cartoon.

I then renamed the file to "X Files S0xE0x.m4v" and the scanner found The X-Files.

From the original name I gave the files, and these renamings, it seems to me that the - in the name is causing the request being sent to the DB to trip up.
Maybe some string quoting is missing?

DN

Anything after - is discarded in file names, as it usually includes unrelated data. So your 'x files' would work.

Petr

Thanks for that, explains what is going on and to make sure future naming standards here do not have a "-".

Now to put on my shell scripting hat and bulk rename the 7 seasons worth of episodes I have ripped so far

Cheers
DN